Van Zandt, TX: data center power outlook

Grid position at a glance

Serving utilities

CHEROKEE COUNTY ELEC COOP ASSN, FANNIN COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, FARMERS ELECTRIC COOP, INC - (TX), ONCOR ELECTRIC DELIVERY COMPANY LLC, SOUTHWESTERN ELECTRIC POWER CO, TEXAS-NEW MEXICO POWER CO, TRINITY VALLEY ELEC COOP INC, UPSHUR RURAL ELEC COOP CORP, WOOD COUNTY ELECTRIC COOP, INC

ISO / market

ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas)

Highest grid access

345 kV

Substations in county

24

Industrial retail rate

6.5¢/kWhState-level EIA-861 industrial average. The map colours by this, not by a per-county rate.

Per-utility rates in county

6 of 9 serving utilities: 5.6 to 31.7¢/kWhLowest to highest industrial rate among the utilities serving this county (EIA-861 Sales to Ultimate Customers). A spread, not the county’s rate, and it covers only the serving utilities that report one.

Interconnection queue

8 projects, 986 MW

Proposed generation

220 MW planned or under constructionUnits filed with EIA as planned or under construction (Form EIA-860M). Declared intent from the federal inventory, not the interconnection queue and not guaranteed capacity.

Grid carbon intensity

734 lb CO2/MWh

Water withdrawals

6.9 Mgal/dAll uses, freshwater. Water already withdrawn locally, not water available for a new load.

Construction labor near site

163,474 employed in construction within ~120 km (25 of 26 counties reporting)A large build needs hundreds of skilled construction workers on site for one to three years. A county with few of them within commuting range means bussing crews in, per diem, and housing, which is real cost and schedule risk. This counts people employed in construction within about a 120 km drive (BLS QCEW), summed across nearby counties. It is not labor known to be available: most are already committed to other projects, and no public data reveals who is free.

Grid conditions in Van Zandt

For Van Zandt, Texas, the following sections turn public grid records into a siting-oriented summary. The highest mapped voltage in Van Zandt is 345 kV, in the high-voltage transmission class. Van Zandt carries 24 substations, a dense footprint across the county.

For Van Zandt, the ERCOT market (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) is the operator that handles interconnection and capacity. The state industrial average retail rate is 6.5 cents per kWh, drawn from EIA-861 and applied to Van Zandt at the state level rather than as a county rate. The serving utilities in Van Zandt that publish a rate range 6 of 9 serving utilities: 5.6 to 31.7¢/kWh, a spread kept separate from the state average.

On record for Van Zandt are 8 interconnection-queue projects, totalling 986.27 MW of requested capacity. Federal filings (EIA-860M) list 220 MW of generation as planned or under construction in Van Zandt. Grid carbon intensity for Van Zandt, via its balancing authority, is 734.003 lb CO2 per MWh in eGRID.

USGS 2015 puts freshwater withdrawals across Van Zandt at 6.87 million gallons per day for all uses, a measure of use, not spare supply. Within roughly a 120 km commute of Van Zandt, about 163,474 people are employed in construction (BLS QCEW), which speaks to how far crews for a multi-year build would travel, not to labour known to be free.

Read the Van Zandt figures as screening-grade context: they describe the surrounding grid, not a specific parcel. The numbers for Van Zandt, Texas qualify one another, so grid access, substation density, market membership, and rate are meant to be read as a set, not in isolation. Past this screening view, siting in Van Zandt, Texas turns on a study of a particular address, something no county-level page can stand in for. Every number shown for Van Zandt, Texas traces to a public source listed below, with its retrieval date, so the provenance is auditable rather than asserted.

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